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Boom-Boom takes charge as X-Force goes on the run in ‘Fugitive X-Force’

‘Inglorious X-Force’ writer Tim Seeley and artist Áthila Fabbio launch a new five-issue series in December.

X-Force is going on the run in December, and they’re putting Boom-Boom in charge. Marvel today announced Fugitive X-Force, a five-issue limited series from writer Tim Seeley and artist Áthila Fabbio that picks up the story from Seeley’s current Inglorious X-Force series.

Following Cable’s disappearance, Tabitha “Boom-Boom” Smith will step up as the leader of the mutant strike team, which also includes Archangel, Hellverine, Domino and Ms. Marvel.

“Fugitive X-Force is a natural extension of Inglorious, following up with the ramifications of the events of that series,” Seeley said. “But now, they’re on their own, wanted for murder, and hanging on by a thread.”

That leaves the team on the run from both the law and their fellow mutants while Domino searches for Cable, whose latest crisis could have consequences for everything X-Force has been fighting to protect.

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Tim Seeley, Aaron Campbell + Ben Templesmith bring my Summerween nightmares to life in ’12 Foot Skeleton’

The new series debuts from Ignition Press in October.

So are you familiar with the term “Summerween,” which has somehow made it into my vernacular despite my best efforts? It actually comes from the TV show Gravity Falls, from an episode where they celebrated Halloween in the summer, which is ok, great even; I’m a big fan of Halloween.

But at my house “Summerween” is the term my wife uses when the Halloween decorations go out at CostCo, Home Depot and [insert the name of any retailer way too close to my house] here. It happens sometime at the end of June, and some years it can be scarier than Halloween. Now, we do not own the very popular giant skeletons that have infiltrated neighborhoods around the United States — we had a neighbor in California who kept theirs up all year and re-decorated it based on the next holiday — but we do have this monstrosity, among other decorations.

But that giant skeleton has become such a phenomenon that it’s getting its own comic, 12 Foot Skeleton, courtesy of Ignition Press, writers Tim Seeley and Aaron Campbell, and artist Ben Templesmith. I mean, who better to help channel my nightmares about Summerween?

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Dynamite expands Vampirella’s world with Pathfinder, Darkstalkers crossovers + new compact collection

The publisher announced two crossover miniseries and an affordable digest-sized collection of Kurt Busiek-written stories.

Dynamite Entertainment is giving Vampirella fans plenty to sink their teeth into this fall.

In the lead-up to the San Diego Comic-Con, the publisher has announced a trio of new releases starring the Daughter of Drakulon, including crossover series with Pathfinder and Capcom’s Darkstalkers, as well as the first compact edition collecting one of the character’s most influential modern runs.

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Oni Press spotlights Charlie Adlard, David Lapham + more in new ‘EC Artists From the Abyss’ one-shots

The series of one-shots spotlights Charlie Adlard, David Lapham, Sami Kivelä and Leomacs with collections of their EC Comics work alongside brand-new stories.

Oni Press is putting the spotlight on the artists behind their EC Comics revival with Artists From the Abyss, a new series of one-shots launching in November.

Each ad-free issue will feature one of the artists who has contributed to EC’s new era, collecting their previous EC Comics stories alongside a brand-new tale created for the anthology.

The series begins Nov. 11 with EC Artists From the Abyss: Charlie Adlard #1, showcasing The Walking Dead artist’s work for EC Comics, along with a new story written by Chris Condon and Tim Seeley.

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Slugfest | All-star lineup assembles for ‘Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees Halloween Special’

Plus: TaleSpin, Amazing Venom and more!

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. Hit the links for more info.

Patrick Horvath’s Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees will get a Halloween anthology one-shot in October, featuring stories by James Tynion IV, Tony Fleecs, Che Grayson, Dave Wachter and Jared Cullum, among others.

The anthology is set in the years after Samantha Strong, the cuddly bear/hardware store owner/brutal serial killer, left Woodbrook at the end of the second series, with the town’s citizens gathering around a campfire to swap stories about her legend.

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‘Money Shot’ returns this summer

‘Money Shot: The F* Offs’ finds the XXX-plorers competing in an intergalactic sexual Olympics.

Those crazy porn-star scientists from Money Shot will return this summer in a “single-issue series,” aka a one-shot, titled Money Shot: The F* Offs from Vault Comics.

Series co-creator Tim Seeley once again will team with co-writer Patton Oswalt and artist Garth Graham, the creative team from Money Shot: Big Bang. The comic will reunite characters from across the series’ seven-year run to compete in a cosmic competition called The F* Offs.

“We’ve been doing Money Shot for 7 years (!), and of course, in that time, we’ve met a whole lot of sexy, weird characters, all of whom we wanted to see again, potentially naked,” said Seeley. “The F* Offs is a crossover event contained to one series, dropping our cast right into the middle of a secret war where they’ll have to compete to save all life and evolution with the main tool that ensures those things exist: Sex!”

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NYCC | ‘X-Men: Shadows of Tomorrow’ will follow ‘Age of Revelation’

Marvel has announced yet another X-Men publishing initiative that’ll come in the wake of their current crossover.

X-Men: Age of Revelation is just a little more than a week old, so it must be time to announce what comes next. At the New York Comic Con, Marvel revealed Shadows of Tomorrow, which will include 11 new/returning titles in the X-Men line.

To catch you up: in the wake of the well-regarded Krakoa era of the X-Men, spearheaded by Jonathan Hickman and continuing for a number of years, Marvel launched X-Men: From the Ashes, which was a return to a more traditional approach, where the world once again hated and feared mutants. Rather than living on a mutant paradise island, the characters were scattered, from Alaska to New Orleans, where they tried to pick up their lives again.

Reception has been tepid, at best, to the new line, with several of the launch titles not making it very far into their runs. Then all of them ended in September to make way for Age of Revelation, a story set 10 years in the future, where Doug Ramsey, the former New Mutant turned Heir of Apocalypse, ruled with an iron fist. That story is just getting started and is set to run through December, a short-term event like Age of Apocalypse, but the nature of comic news, retailing and solicitations means it’s time to turn to January.

If you were a fan of the From the Ashes books, the good news is that several of the creators who worked on them will return to the characters they were working on after Age of Revelation. There are also some new titles coming, with a big focus on solo X-titles/duos vs. team books (although we’ll see those, too). Let’s have a look:

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SDCC | Gene Yang + Freddie Williams II take on ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’

Plus: TMNT X Godzilla, Battle Nexus and more Turtle-focused news from San Diego.

The 12th issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be the final issue by Jason Aaron and Juan Ferrerya, who kicked off the new series last year. But December will bring a new creative team as Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and Freddie Williams II (Batman/TMNT) take over the title.

The creative team change was one of several TMNT-related announcements IDW made this week at the San Diego Comic-Con.

According to publisher IDW, “this all-new story arc will provide fans with a fresh jumping on point as the Heroes in a Half-Shell are back together and hopeful about the future of the city, but there’s a dark and personal danger lurking in the shadows as a deadly new assassin makes their debut.” Yang and Williams will be joined by Jake Thomas, who take over editing the title.

“I’ve been a fan of the TMNT since I was young. I remember watching the ‘80s cartoon with my brother and then reenacting the Turtles’ adventures with our action figures,” Yang said. “I read my first issue of TMNT at a friend’s house, and I was blown away by the melding of gritty martial arts action and wild, out-of-left-field ideas. Many years later, I began my cartooning career in American independent comics. All of us from that corner of comics owe a huge debt to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Their talent and creativity, both as comics creators and as businessmen, carved out a path for the rest of us to follow. In fact, the very first comic I ever self-published was funded by a grant from Peter Laird’s Xeric Foundation. I’ve admired the Turtles for a long, long time. I’m absolutely thrilled to get to tell their stories at IDW.”

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‘X-Vengers,’ ‘Cloak or Dagger’ + more round out the ‘Age of Revelation’ titles

The final titles announced for the upcoming X-Men event will all kick off in the final week of October.

It’s the fourth and final round of Age of Revelation titles, as Marvel reveals the titles that’ll kick off on Oct. 29. This round features different takes on Deadpool, Cloak and Dagger, the Avengers and more.

The spiritual successor to the Age of Apocalypse event from the 1990s, Age of Revelation features the Heir to Apocalypse, Doug Ramsey, taking over the world and creating a new mutant paradise that’s built on a lie. If you checked out this week’s prelude issue, then Xorn has already explained to you how, 10 years in the future, everything has changed in the Marvel Universe under the rule of Doug Ramsey (which is a weird sentence to type, being an old school New Mutants fan).

Details on these final titles can be found below, and if you’re planning to be at the San Diego Comic Con next week, you can find out more details at Marvel’s X-Men panel on Thursday at 1:45 p.m. PT. Here’s their full panel line-up.

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Marvel heads back to the beach this summer in ‘Marvel Swimsuit Special: Friends, Foes, Rivals’

The iconic special returns with a new story by Tim Seeley, Tony Fleecs and Nick Bradshaw — and a code for a ‘Marvel Rivals’ in-game skin.

A staple of Marvel’s summer comics line-up will return in July as the company resurrects its infamous Marvel Swimsuit Special.

The special will feature swimsuit pin-ups of Marvel characters by Nic Klein, Marguerite Sauvage, Luciano Vecchio and many more, along with a story by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs — the Local Man team — drawn by artist Nick Bradshaw.

Carla Hoffman revisited the classic Marvel Swimsuit Special back in 2021, noting that these would feature a whole bunch of cheesecake pin-ups as well as a story that explained why Captain America was wearing a bathing suit on Monster Island:

What was thought to be utterly salacious drivel by my mother when I tried to get a copy in my youth, the ‘93 Marvel Swimsuit issue has a story. Seriously: the Infinity Watch play a poker game, Pip the Troll wins, so he makes them all use the Infinity Stones to gather all the superheroes of the Marvel Universe to a party at Monster Island. When they are all suddenly transported there by the Space and Time Gems, they are forced into not fighting one another and having a good time by the Mind Stone, so a big beach party breaks out and Pip the Troll takes pictures of everyone in their swimsuits.

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‘Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature!’ bridges the gap between ‘Peacemaker’ seasons 

Tim Seeley, Mitch Gerads, Rex Ogle, Matteo Lolli and James Gunn bring the MAX series to comics.

Warner Bros. MAX series Peacemaker will spill into comics next year with a miniseries meant to bridge the gap between seasons one and two of the hit show.

Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature! will include two Peacemaker stories — one featuring Vigilante by Tim Seeley and Mitch Gerads, and another with Eagly, Peacemaker’s pet Eagle, by Rex Ogle, Matteo Lolli and John Kalisz. Pat Brosseau will letter both stories, while James Gunn will serve as a story consultant for both tales.

“When [DC editor] Katie Kubert asked me to do a short for DC’s Strange Love Adventures, I was stoked to write a Peacemaker story,” Ogle said. “So getting to dive back in and play with this iconic antihero again (and in a miniseries this time!) is a total dream. Part of what makes him so great is that at his core, Peacemaker is a hopeless optimist. He wants the world to be a better place, not just for himself, but for others. He doesn’t always go about achieving peace in the right way, but he brings an incredible levity to the violence that is already ever-present in our world. And sometimes we need to laugh at the bad—so we don’t break down and cry.”

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Patton Oswalt + Garth Graham join Tim Seeley for the next ‘Money Shot’ series

‘Money Shot: Big Bang’ will kick off with a zero issue that recaps all the sexual and relationship shenanigans of the previous two series.

If you thought Vault’s Money Shot had shot its load, worry not — the alien porn/relationship comic by writer Tim Seeley will rise again next year, and Seeley’s bringing some new friends along for the ride.

Comedian Patton Oswalt, who recently worked with Seeley on the Minor Threats series The Alternates, will co-write Money Shot: Big Bang, with webcomics artist Garth Graham providing art. They’re joined by Kurt Michael Russell on colors, Crank! on letters and designer Tim Daniel.

If you’ve never read Money Shot — or just need a recap of the previous two series — Big Bang will kick off with a zero issue that explains the story thus far.

“Money Shot has always been about finding the right partners,” said Seeley. “Lots of partners. Friends. Strangers. Aliens with a dozen or so sex organs. And even beloved comedians and acclaimed webcomics artists! So, with Big Bang, I’m positively throbbing to work with my friend and collaborator Patton Oswalt, and burning hot new (to print comics) talent, Garth Graham!”

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